Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boss said, 'I've been watching you, young fellow,' and I want . . ." "The hours after supper did it." . . . "'Do you think you could swing Jim Perkins' job?" he asks me and I says, 'Sure, I been working with the I. C. S. evenings!" . . . "I bought Mary that dress she wanted, and I says, 'Take this, I'm making real money...
...Hildebrand. There is also a viva voce examination held in public before a board of examiners. In addition to these university examinations almost all colleges have their own examinations, or "collections", at fairly frequent intervals, designed to keep their undergraduates to the mark or to serve as dress rehearsals for the final examinations...
...left in a sort of philosophic anarchy until the final examinations. They are kept to the line by the "collections" set by the colleges, and their work in each honour school is rigorously prescribed even to the "set" books. Grades are not known, for the tutors mark their dress rehearsal examination in a complicated way--Alpha, Alpha Beta, Beta Alpha, Beta, or satis, non satis, vix satis, vix vix satis. Some of the lectures are very close to our condemned survey courses. There is a degree of specialization that is hardly safe except in a very civilized community...
...confirmed, that he had asked Dr. Meissner, President Ebert's secretary, to remain in office. The aged soldier let it be known that he was opposed to any form of military pomp at his inauguration and that he would swear allegiance to the Constitution in civilian dress. He was, moreover, reported to have overruled his advisers by stating decisively that he would receive the Diplomatic Corps on May 14. He was urged to receive them much later...
...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...